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 480 SPANISH HISTORY, &G. peaceable submission of five millions of people, and with the tranquil surrender of all the outposts. Not a native arm was willingly raised, in defence of those who held the supremacy of those countries for two centuries. All this requires no comment ; the Spaniards who did not directly obstruct the natural order of conquest and colonization, esta- blished a local and permanent influence ; the vi- sionary and factitious system of other European powers was in a moment subverted, when the mi- litary power was destroyed which supported it. * de Zuniga. Relations des Isles Philippines, in the collection of Thevenot, Vol. I. Voyage dans les Meis de PInde, par M. Le Gentil, Tom. II.
 * An historical view of the Philippine Islands, by Martinez